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...changed. The famous halftime show at the Super Bowl didn't just flash Janet Jackson's breast at a prime-time audience. It also featured a crotch-grabbing rap star and a dance routine that would have got its participants arrested not long ago. Then there were the commercials, whose content included a flatulent horse, a fight between grandparents, and enough spots for impotence medications to raise the Titanic. (The raciest ad I found in my old copy of Playboy was for satin bed sheets and pillowcases, "as used in the Imperial and Bridal Suites of the Conrad Hilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Uses of Civility | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...study card flash mob” will create chaos as 700 students descend on Sumerian 200r, prompting widespread criticism of the administration for never considering any sort of “pre-registration” system...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Predictions | 2/6/2004 | See Source »

...varying force over the next hour, but for now Edwards’ supporters are the only ones standing beside arriving voters. Just about every voter gets a bright “good morning” as he or she walks in to the poll, and the volunteers flash warm grins at all whose eyes they can catch...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Take Primary Role in N.H. | 2/4/2004 | See Source »

...also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God’s sight.” Even though our community would profane the sanctity of marriage, apparently we can still hold our heads high because we have dignity and value. Here’s a news flash, Mr. President: Treating us with dignity and value would mean using the words “gay” and “lesbian” in your State of the Union Address. If you are bent on disenfranchising us, then the least you can do is to speak our names...

Author: By Marcel A.Q. Laflamme and Adam P. Schneider, MARCEL A.Q. LAFLAMME AND ADAM P. SCHNEIDERS | Title: Bush Talks Around Same-Sex Marriage | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...Lasell, just a few doors down from Kaplan, Rosalind Meshekow, 84, diligently reviews her Spanish vocabulary. "I don't learn as fast as I used to," she says, "but since meals and housekeeping are taken care of for us here, I have more time to study." Flash cards in hand, Meshekow is struggling with a new list of words. She cares less about boosting her 2.9 gpa than about learning to communicate with the Spanish speakers around her. Unlike most of her fellow retirees who already have degrees, Meshekow, a former secretary, is working toward her first college diploma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to School | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

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